Destructiveness Quotes
33 quotes by 26 authors
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I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We…
— Douglas MacArthur
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There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we…
— Leo Rosten
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Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence. War is quite…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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For the other end of the spectrum, the 50 to 85 percent of the world's population who are not the recipients of privilege, the world…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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For me, the entire journey of Lost has been walking that fine line between discovering Sawyer's humanity and, yet, keeping his edge of anger and…
— Josh Holloway
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a…
— Courtney Love
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Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while he pays lip service to…
— Erich Fromm
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Look hard for ways to make little moves against destructiveness.
— Andre Trocme
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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.
— Theodor Adorno
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Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
— Erich Fromm
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It is not true that evil, destructiveness , and perversion inevitably form part of human existence, no matter how often this is maintained. But it…
— Alice Miller
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The perspective of Love doesn't leave anybody out. Until your vision and compassion is big enough to include those who oppose you, you are simply…
— Adyashanti
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Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.
— Helen Garner
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To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to…
— Theodor Adorno
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There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a…
— Douglas MacArthur
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